Eddie's Club Brings Peers Together Through Volunteerism
Volunteer-based organization works to pair buddies with disabilities and without.
Throughout the year, select Sundays at Washington Irving Middle School are seldom a quiet scene. Kids are hammering nails into Christmas crafts for their parents, jamming out on mini keyboards, singing along to karaoke, playing Connect Four shrieking with delight, or shooting hoops in the gym. It’s about three weeks before Christmas and this is the scene six times a year when Eddie’s Club takes up residence at the Springfield, VA, middle school. Eddie’s Club is a volunteer-based non-profit organization for kids ages 4 – 21 that have any form of disability. There are few clubs like it in the Northern Virginia area; where kids, teens and young adults with and without disabilities can get together for a few hours on a Sunday for some social …
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